Monday, June 16, 2008

Don't sign me up for one of those

Many of you are probably familiar with the amazing variety of "designer dogs" out there. For some reason, mutts of all types are the in-thing, and if you can give your puppies a cool breed name, you can sell them for big bucks. Labradoodles, Schnoodles, Puggles...the list goes on and on. But today, I was confronted with one I hadn't seen yet. A lady brought her new puppy in today for an exam and vaccinations. This pup was a Shih Tzu / Bichon Frise cross. When she filled out the information, she wrote the following in the breed section: "Shibich."